Troubled Newsday is trying to rally the troops as it copes with the fallout from its massive circulation scandal.

Editor Howard Schneider held a meeting yesterday with the editorial staff in the paper’s Melville newsroom to address lingering concerns about job cuts.

“Some of the staff are looking at their numbers, seeing who has seniority,” said one reporter. “Tribune could take a big hit with this and Newsday most of all.”

Schneider told staffers there were no current plans to cut jobs, but he didn’t rule it out.

“What is going to be the determining factor is next year’s budget,” said Newsday spokesman Stu Vincent. “It’s too early to say.”

Newsday owner Tribune Co. has set aside nearly $95 million to cover advertisers’ claims after it admitted to overstating its daily figures by as many as 100,000 copies and Sunday by up to 132,000.

In June, Newsday trimmed its editorial and operations staff by 46 people as part of Tribune’s cost-cutting drive. About 40 of those were voluntary buyout offers, with another six positions eliminated.

The meeting was set following a report that Newsday sent dozens of newspaper hawkers into the streets as part of an elaborate scam to fool outside auditors investigating the paper’s inflated circulation.

The tabloid put real hawkers at street intersections, but sent out its own agents to buy copies.